DLO Database Name

Year level

# of DLO’s

Description of contents

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms.

Berklee Shares

8-12

1000’s

Welcome to the Berklee Shares Web site. Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. Berklee Shares is:

·         Individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni.

• Free and open to the music community around the world.
• A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files.
• A glimpse into the educational opportunities provided by Berklee.

Please download these lessons and share them with your friends. Let us know what other types of free lessons you would like to see and what you think of Berklee Shares.

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms

Careo

0-12

4000

Campus Alberta Repository of Learning Objects: free membership that allows you to add objects to this repository. Science focus.

COL Knowledge Finder

8-12

1 000 000

The COL knowledge finder indexes about one million documents on education and development from selected websites related to education and development.

Connexions

0-12

over 2,300 modules and 80 courses

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.

Creative Commons

0-12

OCW
10,000’s

Unbelievable collection of resources including  Audio, images, text, video and education resources; all with minimal © limitations. The most extensive OpenCourseWare resource available so far.

Discover: Visual Arts and Music

0-12

2500

Discover is a database of visual arts and music resources selected for use by New Zealand schools. Over 2,500 multimedia items are available and almost all are from National Library of New Zealand collections. Access to Discover is free.

EDNA: Education Australia Network

0-12

200 000+

(unspecified)

This is a huge repository of material that can be reproduced for education purposes at no cost or © infringement. Easy searched via a number of different search tools this is an excellent resource base for the development of online units of work.

Education World

0-12

2000

Not actually a DLO collection but could be used as such without metadata. This is an excellent collection of knowledge items that can be utilised in unit creation. Read copyright information carefully to appreciate limitations on this content. Excellent content.

EOE Foundation

3000+

Java Applet Library. (Click on the Education object economy icon)

Fathom

4-12

40 online courses (approx)

A collection of online seminars (brilliant!) covering a wide range of topics including Victorian England, undersea animals, Shakespeare, African studies, the pyramids . . . .

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)

0-12

24000+

Gateway to Educational Materials, which offers a database of more than 24,000 education resources across more than 400 web sites. This database is made possible by the Federally supported GEM Consortium, a group of non-federal organizations and Federal agencies that have developed an education-specific metadata profile, controlled vocabularies, and tools for using the profile and vocabularies.

FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms

Ibiblio

 9-12

10.000(s) ?? unstated

Ibiblio.org averages 3 million information requests per day, and the contributor-maintained collections are expanding daily. Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio is a database of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

IDEA:> Interactive Dialogue with Educators Across the State

3-12

1000’s

(unspecified)

IDEAS provides educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, professional development and other selected resources.

Ilumina

9-12

1000 (approx)

Ilumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses.

iTunes U has arrived, giving higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to their students. Presentations, performances, lectures, demonstrations, debates, tours, archival footage — school is about to become even more inspiring. Free and great extension work!

Java Applet Library

4-12

3190+

These applets cover almost every curriculum area imaginable. Check © issues with each applet, many come with free use assigned.

JohnLocker.com was started in April of 2008 to help students, teachers, educators, and the public get educated on a variety of topics. As the first user powered online learning network, you can expect to come away with knowledge that both challenges and empowers you.

By harnessing the power of social communities, JohnLocker.com is able to provide the best documentaries and educational videos found on the web. It is our goal to make the process of watching, adding, rating, and discussing the individual videos as simple as possible. 

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

12

10-15 courses

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is pleased to welcome you to the initial phase of its pilot OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, providing free and open access to the School's most popular courses to students, self learners, and educators anywhere in the world. We are launching our OCW web site with two courses and expect to publish eight additional courses by April 2005, followed by many more courses in the coming years. A small beginning with a few courses but watch this space.

KidzOnline

4-12

25 online seminars

The focus of these online video assisted seminars is on information and communication technology.  They cover aspects such as digital awareness, the Internet, animation, videoconferencing, information literacy . . .  They are free and they are excellent.

Knowledge Agora

9-12

1000’s

(unspecified)

A “commons” where you can add your learning object if your institution is a member. Anyone may use the learning objects here and if there are costs associated with the object the process for payment is described. Most of the objects are free and are of a good to excellent quality.

LEA ICT learning Object database (click on ICT Learning Objects)

0-8

370

A range of high quality non-web objects including excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint and Publisher that can be downloaded.

Learning about Learning Objects

5-12

100’s

(unspecified)

A range of units of work as well as DLO’s, this repository was funded by the California Virtual Campus and contains a range of resources  covering themes such as history, language, music, mathematics, sciences. Social studies, engineering, sports, psychology, ethics, technology . . .

Library of Congress

0-12

1 000 000

The Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division is pleased to announce that between January and March 2004, it added thousands of catalogue records and images to the Library's Prints and Photographs Online Catalogue (PPOC), bringing the number of images in the catalogue to nearly 1 million.

Maricopa Learning Exchange

8-12

1120 courses

Just as learning is a concept that defies quantifying, so are examples of learning. That is why we represent them as mysterious wrapped packages, ranging from as small as a spreadsheet activity designed for a chemistry lab exercise to a complete faculty development program. Simply put, the criteria for a package is anything from Maricopa created for or applied to student learning.

This open reference project has the goal of providing high-quality content for these computers free of charge to the end user, and provide numerous benefits over paper textbooks.

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms

Merlot

6-12

100 000

Merlot is one of the most established digital learning object databases.  Aimed primarily at tertiary level studies, there are nonetheless numerous digital objects here that would be suitable for secondary school courses as well as upper primary.

MIT  course database

12-12

700+ courses

A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.

National Learning Network

9-12

1000’s of fully interactive e-learning modules

Following a free registration his website allows you to preview and download the wide range of e-learning materials commissioned by the NLN for the UK post-16 sector.
The materials are designed to run in a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) so using them on this website will only give you limited functionality. e.g. - test results won't be saved and your progress won't be tracked.

Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. They sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place. Trust us, you’ll find engaging content here that will keep you learning and sharp.

Papers Past

5-12

400 000 pages

Papers Past showcases selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The site currently contains digital images of over 600,000 pages from 30 publications.

PBS Teacher Source

0-12

3000 lesson plans and activities

·    education's best resources by curricular subject, topic and grade level and standard;

·    in-depth online professional development through PBS TeacherLine;

·    details on PBS station outreach activities in your community;

·    tips on how to effectively teach with technology;

·    PBS television programs with extended taping rights for educators;

·    access to convenient online shopping for your favourite PBS videos;

·    convenient tools for teaching, such as recommended books and Web sites;

·    interdisciplinary teaching suggestions;

Public Library of Science

12-12

Magazines

PLoS has initially published two journals - PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine,  PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogens. The content is excellent and it is completely free.

Quia

0-12

2000+

Java applet Matching game Flashcards Concentration game Word search puzzle Battleship Challenge, board Columns activity Hangman game, Jumbled words, Ordered list activity, Picture perfect activity Pop-ups, Rags-to-riches game, Scavenger hunt, Cloze activity Patterns. For $US49 you can create your own using their simple applications package.

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms

Shodor

8-12

1500+

The Shodor Foundation is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modelling and simulation technologies. There are hundreds of interactive animations, java applets, lesson plans, units of work

SMETE Digital Library

4-12

1500 (approx)

Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Education 

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms

Splash

0-12

1000000’s!

(unspecified)

Splash is a federated (meta) search in that it searches a group of digital repositories to find information for you. It searches

Teachers Domain

0-12

1000’s

Welcome to Teachers' Domain, a multimedia digital library for K-12 teachers and students. You'll find an extensive collection of classroom-ready resources, as well as media-rich lesson plans and professional development resources. Each resource is catalogued by grade level and correlated to national and state standards. Copyright restrictions here. You must link to these resources only.

TED  [new] Technology-Entertainment-Design

The Free Course Index

9-12

150+

Links to hundreds of free online training courses and college courses (even if some of the courses are spelled wrong!).  Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese German,  Accounting Economics, management, small business,  Ecommerce, marketing,  Baseball, Coaching, Football, Golf, Tennis, Swimming, Fitness, Running, Karate,  word excel access Front Page
Dreamweaver java html, visual basic,  typing, Photoshop,  flash,   PowerPoint, internet marketing,  Negotiation Presentation skills,  Stress management,  Selling skills,   Time management,  Biology Agriculture, Chemistry, Physics Zoology 

The Fulbright Economics Teaching Program

12-12

100’s of short courses and resources

Inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Initiative (OCW), the Fulbright School has begun to publish its teaching and research materials online. FETP OpenCourseWare is not a long distance learning project, rather it is a resource for people working or studying in policy-related fields to increase their knowledge and explore new approaches to learning and curriculum development. Instructors are encouraged to adopt FETP’s curricular materials for use in their own courses. Students may use FETP’s materials to guide independent study. Course syllabi, lecture notes, reading lists and problem sets used in many one-year mid-career program and executive education courses are already available online

The Gateway

0-12

39,064

The Gateway to Educational Materials^SM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

The New York Public Library

0-12

275,000 images

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

The Ranfurly Collection

0-12

4000

The Ranfurly Collection is an online collection of paintings and drawings, papers and photographs created by Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904, and his entourage.
Paintings and drawings - two sketch books and seven separate watercolour paintings.  Papers - 2,970 pages of letters, account books, diaries and scrapbooks. Photographs - four albums containing 450 photographs plus 24 separate family photographs

The UC Berkeley Interactive University Project

6-12

11-15

A limited selection of units of work that gave not been updated since 2002, however the material here is here is useful especially the science units on astronomy and the units on life in the Neolithic and Palaeolithic times in the Social Studies sections.

USU OpenCourseWare

11-12

OCW

A small beginning with a few courses but watch this space.

Web-Based Learning Resource Development (WBLRD)

0-12

100+ collections of lesson plans/units

These Web-Based Resources (lesson plans), have been developed by classroom teachers from various school divisions.  The WBLRD resources may be used "as is", but teachers are encouraged to download the resources and make modifications to them to meet specific instructional needs. Some very useful Professional Development resources here also.

WISC Wisconsin Online Resource Centre

0-12

350+

This initiative from Wisconsin provides teachers with a selection of good quality resources that can be used in the sequencing of online resource material for students.